Marcin W. Zieliński, member of the ISSP Methodological Committee

We are pleased to announce that at this year’s general meeting of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) members, which took place at the turn of April and May in Guadalajara (Mexico), ISS representative Dr. Marcin W. Zieliński was elected a permanent member of the ISSP Methodological Committee for four years term of office!

The ISSP is a cross-national collaboration programme conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences.

Methodology Committee consists of seven members elected at the General Meeting. The Methodology Committee is chaired by Switzerland. The Methodology Committee co-ordinates the work of six groups addressing different areas of cross-cultural methods, all concerned with issues of equivalence: demography, non-response, weighting, mode effects, questionnaire design, translation.

EAST PaC data available in the ADS

East European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST PaC) 1985 – 2015

The aims of this study stem from innovative matching of a formal theory of voting in the national parliamentary elections with a unique data set on candidates in parliamentarian elections in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The formal theory of voting is based on the game theoretical approach from which precise hypotheses are deduced. Theory tells us that by conditioning their ballots on policy outcomes, voters can use elections to control politicians. Presumably, politicians anticipate that they will be sanctioned for poor party-performance, and thus have an incentive to implement policies, through their parties and other political units, that correspond to the preferences of the electorate. Does the system of repeated elections function as a mechanism of electoral control, and if it does, what factors influence its effectiveness? We consider this question in a broad context of studies on parliamentary elections. A main empirical contribution of study is the creation of a dataset on all candidates that stood for office in parliamentarian elections in selected countries of Eastern Europe. The dataset allows researchers to address the problem of who wins and who loses parliamentary elections in this region, among other research questions. We call these data, the East European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST PaC). These data consist of all candidates – not only winners, but also election losers – who stood for elective office in the national legislature in Poland, Hungary and Ukraine in all post-Communist elections. Poland is exceptional, for EAST PaC contains data from two elections during the Communist era, as well.

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Zaproszenie na seminarium “”Analiza pola władzy i wybranych pól akademickich: badanie struktur, dynamiki i homologii w perspektywie teorii P.Bourdieu”

ISS UW zaprasza do udziału w seminarium w ramach projektu badawczego „Ku socjologicznej teorii znaczenia: pole władzy i nauki społeczne w procesach semiozy” p.t. „Analiza pola władzy i wybranych pól akademickich: badanie struktur, dynamiki i homologii w perspektywie teorii P.Bourdieu”

8 grudnia 2017 r. (piątek) godz.15.

ISS UW, ul. Stawki 5/7, Warszawa, Sala 417 (4 piętro, za szklanymi drzwiami)

Program w załączeniu.

Prosimy o potwierdzenie udziału w seminarium do dnia 28 listopada na adres: iss@uw.edu.pl

Konferencja “”Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Alternative Economic Models and Responses to Decline in Contemporary Society”,

Sekcja Socjologii Ekonomicznej i Oddział Warszawski PTS, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, Wydział Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych i Resocjalizacji UW oraz Instytut Studiów Społecznych UW zapraszają do udziału w międzynarodowej konferencji “Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Alternative Economic Models and Responses to Decline in Contemporary Society“, która odbędzie się w dniach 21 i 22 maja 2018 r. w Warszawie. Konferencja jest drugim wydarzeniem z cyklu warsztatów odbywających się pod wspólnym tytułem “Bringing the New Economic Sociology Back Into the Sociological Analysis”.

Zaproszenie do wygłoszenia wykładu gościnnego (keynote speech) podczas konferencji przyjęli Barbara Czarniawska (University of Gothenburg) i José Ossandón (Copenhagen Business School). Zgłoszenia referatów można przesyłać do 10 grudnia. Więcej informacji dostępnych jest na stronie http://economy-and-society.uw.edu.pl/nes-2018/